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Monday, October 10, 2016

"You're So Vain" Reworked Brilliantly To Attack Trump

Carly Simon slightly tweaked her classic song
"You're So Vain" for an awesome anti-Trump ad.

The original song plays as we get all kinds of examples of Trump's vanity and temperament. I love the part where Simon sings "and all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner," and the video shows pics of Trump with his three wives, then a photoshopped image of Trump with a shirtless Vladimir Putin on horseback.

If you listen closely, one lyric of "You're So Vain" has been changed for this Trump ad.

A line in the original version of "You're So Vain" is "your scarf, it was apricot."

The new Trump ad version changes the lyric to "your face, it was apricot."

They just couldn't resist, could they? I wouldn't have been able to, either.

Anyway, here's the ad, featuring the song that you swear was meant to be about Donald Trump. (You'l have to click on "Watch on YouTube" to actually see it. )